Blog: Posts by Paul Au
Data on Kubernetes Survey: Contribute to the Collective Knowledge of our Community
The Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community is conducting its annual survey to understand the technology issues and trends for running data and stateful workloads on Kubernetes. This year’s survey will…
Announcing Lori Lorusso as Co-Chair for the Data on Kubernetes SIG
We are thrilled to announce that Lori Lorusso, Head of Community at Percona, has been appointed as co-chair for the Data on Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG). This appointment marks…
Released From the Cage: Apache Kafka Without Its ZooKeeper
For years, Apache Kafka relied on Apache ZooKeeper for maintaining its metadata and coordination. But that is coming to an end. After a lot of work in the Apache Kafka…
Lightning Talk: Enabling Hot Restart of Stateful Applications Including GPU-Accelerate AI/ML Workloads
This talk both described and demonstrated how stateful applications, including GPU-accelerated AI/ML workflows, can be automatically hot restarted after pod kill/eviction events that are augmented by transparent memory-snapshotting techniques. Applications…
Lessons Learned from Building a Database Operator
In this talk, we shared our journey in developing Kubernetes Operators to run MongoDB in critical production Kubernetes environments. This presentation offered a deep dive into the lessons learned from…
Cloud-Native Dataspaces: Experiences from the German Research Data Ecosystem
Data on Kubernetes and stateful applications have gained remarkable adoption across the community. But why stop there? Kubernetes and cloud-native tools can provide compelling core technologies for building sophisticated data…
Lightning Talk: My Database Runs on Kubernetes. What’s Next? Data Platforms!
There’s not much doubt that databases now run well on Kubernetes: operators have matured, storage management works, and there are lots of success stories. What do you do now? Build…
Lightning Talk: Ditching Data Pipelines: why treating Data as Assets is the best thing you can do
Efficient data handling traditionally involves constructing robust pipelines to process information from diverse sources. However, recent open-source tools question this approach and propose an alternative: rather than detailing data processing…
Announcing Your New Data on Kubernetes Ambassadors
We put out the call for Data on Kubernetes community members to submit applications for the Ambassador program, and you responded. We had an overwhelming response of amazing candidates. Several…
